this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country! It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.

Good lord

May is #AANHPIHeritageMonth! Celebrate this month all year long by sharing these stories by Asian, Asian American, and Native Hawaiian voices! Explore the booklist to discover books for all ages and reading levels. #EduSky #TLSky 📚 penguinschoollibrary.com/pyrAANHPIboo...

Popped up to my favorite “beautiful city” last weekend to catch my amazing, talented godchild in Godspell. While visiting, I also met up with Katy, my CP, plus had dinner at 5 Napkin Burger, where Mike Jung kept me company in a way… though I regret getting hot sauce fingerprints on several pages!

I'm honoured to have had the opportunity to sit down with @naomimilliner.bsky.social to discuss her newest middle grade novel, The Trouble With Secrets, an emotionally rich story about honesty, unexpected loss and the grieving process. popgoesthereader.com/interview-na... #KidLit #MGLit

It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now— —While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.

20,000+ people at the Capitol to fight authoritarianism. This—more and more of this—is what it's going to take to defend our democracy. Proud of Minnesota today.

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Now more than ever #weneeddiversebooks 👏📚 Go check out @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social & join in on We Need Diverse Books Day today 💜 #booksky (full list of titles from the image is on my IG due to character limits)

On this first We Need Diverse Books Day, celebrate by reading some of these books written by authors friends from my two picture book release groups - The Picture Book Scribblers and 21 for the Books. @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay #DiverseBooks #kidlit #booksky

After getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.

NEW MG releases on today's @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social, including @naomimilliner.bsky.social's THE TROUBLE WITH SECRETS. (Watch for my interview with Naomi on 4/7!) #kidlit fromthemixedupfiles.com/its-raining-...

No, Strom Thurmond did NOT renounce his segregationist views. He also never acknowledged his own daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, whose mother was a 15-year-old black maid in the Thurmond household who he knocked up when he was 22. Strom Thurmond was NEVER "one of the good guys".

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

A dark, dark day for libraries, museums, information, education, the truth, and the future. This is what the real-time collapse of a nation looks like. Silence in this moment is complicit. www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025! Children's Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a…

PEN America reports: "Of the 27 books challenged at the state level in South Carolina thus far, the majority were written by LGBTQ+ and women authors ... 52% address sexual violence, 52% address mental health, and 48% address death and grief." pen.org/south-caroli...

The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to strip the US government for parts while enriching their own businesses, alienating us from our allies, and putting us at grave national security risk while stealing food from the elderly and children is both a compelling narrative and true.

Thank you @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I have seen hundreds of authors talking about Meta using pirate books site - I’d like to know what publishers are doing about it. Especially those happily adopting AI into their systems.

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]

My work, my mother-in-law’s work (40+ years of it), and the work of many of my friends is on this site and as been used to train AI without our knowledge or consent. If you’re a writer, check the link in The Atlantic to see if they’ve stolen from you, too. Then take action.

Get ready to lose a shit-ton of library services.

This is happening not far from the Boise library I visited last week and I have thoughts. This banner is not political. Its message should be nonnegotiable, in every single school in America. And people arguing otherwise have no business being in charge of schools. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Do yourselves a favor, my loves, and read this interview with @thevivllainous.bsky.social in Teen Vogue. A bright, fierce mind laying claim to her own adulthood, her own life, and her place in the world. Did my heart good. It's bangers all the way down, but this bit particularly.

Here's the link www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

Having a difficult high-pain day, but glad to be home to finally meet Winter’s three little snowballs! The kitten I found crying in the snow in January birthed three fluffy white babies under a magazine rack in my office last week. They are starting to stumble around & she loves showing them off.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Announcing 🎉🎉 📚 @kasl.us 2026 Nominees for the Kentucky Bluegrass Award www.kasl.us/kba/kba-nomi... #KyLChat @joinkla.bsky.social #KentuckyLibraries Congratulations to every illustrator & author! KY Students will vote in spring of 26 & winners will be announced in April! 📚 Thank you, KBA Committees!

I contracted Covid in March 2020. Bedridden, on breathing treatments, terrified I would die. Five years later, I still grieve the life I might have had if I hadn’t spent the past half-decade sick & in pain. COVID didn’t kill me in 2020, but it robbed me of my health & has likely shortened my life.

I guess that means it’s curtains for any high school production of CATS, Jr. 🎭

The banning continues in Florida too. This means these 3 books including my Telegraph Club are recommended for banning in Brevard County. The school board will meet at the end of the month to decide whether or not to officially ban them.

On a planet where a child dies of malnutrition every 10 seconds, what reasonable person has $900,000,000 and says, "Not enough! I need more!" Being a billionaire should be a malignant disorder. (btw if you have $900M, you can spend $31,000 every single day for 80 years and not run out)

“If people don’t buy my product, they’re breaking the law” is so similar to “If I can’t oppress others, I’m being discriminated against” and “if it doesn’t cater to me & only me specifically, it shouldn’t be allowed for others.” See: Tesla boycott, conservative Christians banning books, Pride, etc.

Absolutely terrifying. I have no words.

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

UPDATE: Called all my NY reps - national and state, as well as my city councilperson, to ask them to speak out for and fight for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. Here's a quick script if you need one and want to make calls yourself. You can find your reps here: reps.fyi

Hint: it’s not okay when they do it to Palestinian green card holders, it’s not okay when they do it to German tourists, it’s not okay when they do it to Mexican people regardless of citizenship, it is not okay. Ever.